I would like to know your opinions on the best values for both of the above. Thanks.

Take a look at the primer pocket uniforming tools from Sinclair.

The Sinclair Primer Pocket tool is by far the best I've tried, and I've tried most of them. Get the power tool attatchment.

The Sinclair Neck turning tool is by far the best I've tried but I've only tried a few................DJ

My experience is with tools that travel to the range with me so they are usually compact but I try to get the best out there. I would suggest a Don Neilson (expensive) neck turner and if you can find one, a Skip Otto primer pocket reamer, cutter. Russ Haydon also makes and sells a very good primer pocket cleaner, cutter.

I like the Hart primer pocket reamer with the carbide cutter.Hand use.

The best n.t. tool is probably the JACO .
For your use Hart and K&M are probably the best choices.

Glenn

I have the Sinclair primer pocket uniformer and it works well. Your primers will seat much deeper after you use it. I had to take my Remington 700 CDL to a gunsmith to have the firing pin worked on because it was too short to fire the rounds. It came from the factory at .050. He put it in his lathe and peeled off .010 to .012 from the shoulder. It works fine now. That was the third trip to the gunsmith with this Remington. I won't buy another one unless it is a great deal on a used one.

The best "value" primer pocket uniformer in my opinion is the Lyman tool for do this job.
It is also the best tool for scraping out primer residue from the bottom of the primer pocket.

A step up in speed and ease would be a Forester DBT base (with the hand crank) with the sinclair primer pocket uniformer cutter tool installed.
This base will also hold the case mouth chamfering tool.
http://www.forsterproducts.com/store.asp?pid=24829

http://www.sinclairintl.com/pr.../Primer-Pocket-Tools
http://www.sinclairintl.com/pr.../Primer-Pocket-Tools

I like the Sinclair uniformer used in my cordless drill. The only neck turner I`ve used (rarely) is the Forster so I`m not much help there.

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The Sinclair Primer Pocket tool is by far the best I've tried, and I've tried most of them.

I agree. You won't need the power adapter if you plan to just chuck it up in a drill motor.

Neck Turning.......

My old set-up..


My new set-up...


As can be seen, I like K&M tools for turning. BTW, I use the Whitetail primer pocket uniformers.

Hope this helps.

Kevin Gullette

Anything mentioned will work just fine for you if you take the time to learn to use it properly. I personally use Sinclair. I belive the best units are those that have a properly fitted mandrel inside the neck. Any other method would in my opinion be second best. Jim

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:
Neck Turning.......

My new set-up...

Kevin Gullette

Hi Kevin-

Please tell us more about your rig with the gear reduction.

Your concentricity gauge is interesting too. I thought it was a NECO at first.

Kenati,

The gearmotor is a Bodine 1/8 hp, 172 rpm (note that I long ago invested in carbide neck turning mandrels....to avoid any brass galling/ruined necks)....that I bought used from eBay. The collet adapter, that uses Forster case trimmer collets, was made by my machinist friend.

Bottom line.....I got very tired of batteries going dead in the middle of turning a neck. I also wanted a better/easier way of holding each case.

The case/bullet fixture was made by "The Fergusons".....out of business long ago. I mainly use it for checking TIR of each turned neck, to assure operation uniformity. I also use it for sorting new lots of brass, by neck wall thickness.

Note that I used the gearmotor idea due to "mentoring" from the guys over at benchrest.com.

Kevin Gullette

Can someone please tell me how to use the RCBS case trimmer / neck turner system with the auto feed. I am not sure what kind of mandrel or pilot I need to turn the outside of my cases.

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Originally posted by Nakihunter:
Can someone please tell me how to use the RCBS case trimmer / neck turner system with the auto feed. I am not sure what kind of mandrel or pilot I need to turn the outside of my cases.

Hello....! Does anyone use the RCBS autofeed outside neck turner? I need some help please!

I know nothing of RCBS, but have used Forester & Lyman and you have to set the depth, and buy the proper dia. mandrel and adjust the cutter to the proper depth. You do not want to take to much off, just enough to square. Contact RCBS would be your best bet.

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Your primers will seat much deeper.. had to take my Remington 700 CDL to a gunsmith to have the firing pin worked on....050. He put it in his lathe and peeled off .010 to .012 from the shoulder. It works fine now. That was the third trip to the gunsmith with this Remington. I won't buy another one unless it is a great deal on a used one.

Lessee...you cut your primer pockets too deep. The pin couldn't reach them by some 10-12 thou ... and it's Remington's fault?

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Best Neck Turner and Primer Pocket Uniformer

Sinclair x2
I use cordless drills for both operations. I have two sets of rechargeable batteries for two drills, and I always have at least one freshly charged battery to continue working.

For what it's worth, I use a Redding handheld primer pocket uniformer which is non-adjustable and I'm quite happy with it, although I do not make a regular habit of doing so.

I think the reason why I do not uniform all of my brass is because of the quantity I currently have for my .357 Magnum. What happened is that I just began reloading about two months ago and NOBODY had .357 Magnum brass for about six weeks prior. Then I found a store on-line in Texas which had some Starline brass, and also Cabela's had some Magtech cases. That same week, two of my backorders for brass were filled, giving me about 3500 pieces of .357 cases.

And another 1000 due to-morrow because of a longstanding backorder being filled.

This is a fairly large number of cases to uniform-out the primer pockets, flash holes and COALs.

About the Forster or RCBS case trimmers using outside neck turning attachments...........

Well, the sad truth is that these arrangements, that axially fix BOTH ends of the case, do not result in acceptable neck wall thickness runout. This is due to the fact that cases are not perfectly straight. Therefore, it is necessary for one end of the case to "float" in order to absorb any irregularities, and allow the turning mandrel to follow the expanded neck inside diameter.

This oughta start something.....

Hope this helps.

Kevin

I use 3 each K&M Neck turners set up w/jacks,
2 each with .001" indicators,
1 each with .0001" indicator all with carbide pilots,lubed with Imperial sizing die wax.

K&M flash hole deburr tools & K&M pocket uniformers.